A Tasteful Way to Request Alternatives to Gifts You Really Don’t Need

I am back home after a sweet and meaningful week with family in Texas. Thank you for all your sentiments and kind messages.

I had been planning to write about alternatives to giving toys and other landfill-bound, house-cluttering non-essentials for Christmas this year, but another blogger, Little Ocean beat me to it. Because she did such a good job (and because I am still easing back into home life), I am more than happy to pass along her insight rather than create a similar post of my own. I especially love how tastefully she presents the idea to her well-meaning relatives, which we all know is not always easy to do. Enjoy… The NO-TOY Christmas.

I had a nightmare that I was standing in a huge crowd waiting for a store to open at midnight so I could save 50% on something that will be obsolete very soon, the doors opened and everyone rushed at the same time, pushing and shoving and grabbing consumer goods off of shelves so they could properly celebrate the birth of some ancient holy guy who must have had a lot of stuff. Then i woke up and realized that could never really happen….

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Hi! I’m Beth Berry, writer, life coach, adventurer, mother of four daughters, and hopelessly hopeful human.
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